8 good questions and answers about "Supplements and ergogenic aids"
- Because they're told to do so!
- personal testimonials
- coaches and trainers
- advertisers
- because they believe it helps
- to improve performance
- to prevent illnessess
- to compensatefor extra demands during intense training
- because competitors use them
- as compensation for an inadequate diet
> use has large differences per discipline
> not only in top athletes
Group A, B, C, D stand for...
- supplements for which there is strong scientific evidence for use during exercise.
- example: caffein, bicarbonate, B-alanine, glycerol
- supplement for which there is emerging scientific support
- example: curcumin, carnitine
- supplements for which the scientific evidence in not supportive of benefit amongst athletes
- example: magnesium, HMB, co-enyme Q10
- compounds that are banned or with high risk of contaminatino wth substanced that could lead to a positive doping test
- example: anabolic steroids
Bind to the AR with affinity similar to testosterone, but exhibit only partial agonist properties in androgenic tissue
Beta blockers...
Therapeutically in use for symptomatic relief in asthma (bronchodilation)
Side effects:
- increase of muscle formation and strength
- decrease of fat tissue
- but.. Tremor
Beta-blockers:
- drugs for use angina pectoris hypertension
- forbidden in competitino for cerain disciplines:
- archery
- gmnastics
effects and risks
- secreted naturally by pituitary; synthetic form used by some athletes
- difficult to detect synthetic from natural in drug testing
- proven to increase lipolysis and blood glucose levels
- changes in muscle mass and strength are found in some studies
- can cause acromegaly (bone thickening), enlargement of internal organs, muscle and joint weakness, diabetes, hypertension and heart disease
- contaminated in past
- Increase energy, endurance reduce mental fatigue, increase fat usage
a. True
b. False
! Glucocorticoids effective to limit inflammatory resonse, to stimulate lipolysis, more katabolic
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